Tyler Johnston
Mrs. Hannon
Psychology
October 19th, 2015
Inception's Misconceptions About Lucid Dreaming Christopher Nolan's 2010 film, "Inception" depicts a world where corporate espionage runs rampant through dream stealing (specifically lucid ones) and can easily be controlled using something called a PASIV device. While although the movie has an interesting topic, the accuracy shown in the movie of lucid dream manipulation falls flat, due to the fact the most of its logic has not been proved by modern studies and findings. To understand why this is, we have to look all the way back to the origin of study in lucid dreaming and the discoveries that have been made from it. Lucid dreaming has been an interesting topic for many years and the history of it stretches past all the way to 1000 BCE when the first textual descriptions of lucid dreaming were made. The Upanishads as well as the Bhairav Tantra were created by ancient Hindus, which are a collection of texts that teaches spiritual lessons and philosophy of ancient Hinduism and
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Well there's multiple things to consider, and the most obvious one is the fact that the movie shows us is very linear, very normal looking, and logical in a sense. Dreaming in reality is much more complicated. For example, the fact that oxygen works underwater, and mirrors work correctly in the movie's dream states are a few key points that leads you to believe that lucid dreaming is very structured and sophisticated when it is not the case. Other things such as limbo is introduced into the movie, where if you die in a particular dream level you are trapped in your infinite raw subconscious. Lucid dreaming does not work this way, and it’s just made as a plot device for the movie to make it more interesting. Limbo does not exist at any level in reality outside of this